[Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:28 PM 7/17/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > However, AFAIK, nobody qualified for the job of setuptools maintainer
> > actually *wants* the position, myself included.  (This is not to say that
> > such qualified persons do not exist, I'm just saying that I don't know of
> > them at the moment.)
> >
> > But lack of qualified volunteers is not me "preventing" anyone doing
> > anything.  Obviously, I am not "preventing" anyone from forking it.
>
>I don't buy that anymore. If you want to be a dictator you have to be
>present in the
>maintenance of the code. You're not anymore present, now you are
>acting and talking like an old
>despot that don't want to see his kingdom taken over by the people ;)

Eh?  I encourage the fork.  I only don't want it called 
setuptools.  Call it the People's Republic of Setuptools or something.  ;-)


>More seriously, if you think people like me or Hanno are not qualified
>enough to fix dumb-stupid bugs like
>the svn 1.6 compatibility stuff, or do releases, that's your problem.

As I said, at least half the patches I get are good.  Knowing *which* 
half is the part that has tougher qualifications.  ;-)


>Also, you spend enough time in the mailing lists to be able to drive
>us to do the "right"  things,

I don't intend to spend a lot of time on that for the fork, actually, 
at least not on an unsolicited basis.


>so, I don't buy what you are saying about being "blessed" (being Ian
>or Jim).

I don't get what you mean by this.